Guessing you meant to reply to the author, not me...but yeah...it’s not like it would be difficult to replace the writers on gawk in the event of a strike, even if just on a temporary “Gap fill” basis.

For the simple possibility of a news outage due to strike, unionizing is obviously not the correct strategy right? In the world of blogging; that hole you leave would be filled quicker than my minds ability to generate a non-pornographic metaphor for “how quick the hole you leave would be filled”. Also, about the…

Uh huh, I just marked my calendar. I’ll check back with you in 12 months after the union has had an opportunity to destroy everything you loved about your job. You’re progressive ideas are all fantasy despite what might be the best of intentions (which is doubtful).

The problem with this, especially if it’s just gawker media, is that you’re not going to have any real power. We tinkered with doing something like this back a million years ago when I worked at a helpdesk. We were underpaid. HORRIBLY underpaid. Expected to work horrifyingly long hours, including holidays etc (and…

one more thing. its ridiculous that we haven’t shopped around! we are going with the first people who come to us, who are taking quite a bit of our money for not even doing that much! dues are standard for the WGA, yes, but most companies have much more robust contracts involving a lot more union services. this is a…

as a gizmodo employee, i completely agree with you. this process is being rushed, and nobody...NOBODY on staff truly understands what negotiation a union contract looks like and what it will entail. despite what adam says below, we do not have concrete goals. we have a broad outline of goals that will no doubt be…

Personally, it sounds like you guys are rushing into this and pushing the romantic notion that a union will be all things to all people, hoping to capitalize on the emotional momentum that has been built without actually developing concrete goals and a real vision prior to voting. As another commenter before me said,…